RELEASED: 18 Aug 2018 at 19:31
The basic election will likely be hung on Feb 24 next year, according to the roadmap set by the Election Commission (EC).
Natt Laosisavakul, deputy secretary general of the EC, provided in Pattaya the draft intend on the senator and the MP elections on Saturday.
Under the constitution, the senator election will need to be finished a minimum of 15 days prior to the MP survey. The election will be for 200 senator prospects, to be shortlisted by the junta to 50.
” If the senator expense is released in the Royal Gazette on Sept 13, it will work the next day,” he stated.
Presently, both the senator and MP costs are being examined by His Majesty the King, who has 90 days to back them, or till mid-September.
Once the senator law enters into impact on Sept 14, the EC will discover printers in November and tallies will be printed in December. Laws on the application of senator prospects will likewise be out in the exact same month, he stated.
The EC and the cabinet will then set the time and dates for the senator election and release a royal decree governing it. The senator election will take 3 days for district, province and nationwide levels and will be held at the same time across the country.
He did not define the dates of the senator election however stated the outcomes must be revealed on Jan 22.
After that, the election for 350 MPs will be held.
The EC anticipates the royal decree setting the date for the MP election to be released on Jan 4 and the survey happening on Feb 24.
Tallies will be printed in January and February. The very first lot will be sent out abroad for elections outside the kingdom. The tickets will be sent out to the district election workplaces in February.
Mr Natt likewise stated the EC was asked by the NCPO to specify constituencies beforehand within 60 days so that main votes can happen in the next 1 month.
” All our provincial workplaces currently set the constituencies tentatively based upon the 2016 census. Now that the 2017 census was launched by the Interior Ministry, they will be asked to modify their strategies to match the brand-new information,” Mr Nutt stated.
Under the constitution, the 250 senators will originate from 2 sources. The EC will hold an election for expert groups to choose 200 prospects amongst themselves and the NCPO would shortlist them to 50.
The other source is an NCPO-appointed screening panel, which will pick another 400 senator prospects, to be shortlisted by the NCPO to 194. The staying 6 visited position: chiefs of the Defence Ministry, the 4 militaries and the cops.
The senators will serve a five-year term, a year longer than the federal government.
